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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	die_v	life_n	5,110	5	5.0778	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66912	A wonderful instance of God's appearance for, and presence with his people in a day of suffering, or, A narrative of the most holy life, and triumphant death of Mr. Fulcran Rey who was put to death in France, for being a publick preacher / in a letter from a friend, to a Protestant refugie ; with allowance, June 2, 1688.	Friend.	1688 (1688)	Wing W3367; ESTC R20406	13,952	17

at Nimes to whom he answered as to the former without ever varying and without ever being surprized The Judges never being able to discompose his Spirit and gain any thing on him he was visited at Allez as well as at Anduze by the Monks of divers Orders who used all their Efforts to terrify him and to oblige him to change his Religion But all their Efforts were in vain they always found in him the same Spirit the same Resolution and the same Constancy What he said to them of his Religion and of his Duty to preach it and to retain it to his last Breath and to suffer all things for it struck them so home that going out of Prison they could not forbear shedding many Tears and protesting they never heard any Man speak so well that this young Man gave an Account of his Faith in a marvellous Manner This Testimony which they gave him made them forbid all other Persons to enter the Prison and command him to be strictly guarded and loaden with new Chains Persons were appointed to feed him whose Faithfulness and Severity they were well assured of and this under a Pretence that they feared least he should be poisoned When he went out of Allez many Persons of both Sexes and various Ranks ran together from all Places of the City to see him before his Departure and all in Tears cast Thousands of compassionate Looks on him and poured out many prayers for a Blessing on him He himself looked on them with Eyes full of Charity and Tenderness he bless'd them in his Turn and ardently wish'd them the Benediction of Heaven vigorously exhorting them to ask God Pardon for their Sins and to do as St. Peter did to go out readily like him to weep bitterly for their Sin of Infidelity During his sojourning at Allez and his whole Journey after he went thence he was divers times exhorted by Monsieur the Judge in criminal Cases to change his Religion promising him that if he would no Harm should be done him He answered him But wherefore do you exhort me to change my Religion Me who am fully assured of the Purity of mine I had rather die a thousand times than quit it speak to me no more of it I pray you After he had said thus to his Judge he prayed him to grant him one Favour which was the only one he had to demand of him The Judge having said he would grant it him if he could The Favour said he that I have to ask of you is That you would not suffer my Father nor any of my Kindred to enter the Prison of Nimes whither you are carrying me This he desired of him that he might not awaken the tendernesses of Nature and that he himself might not be softned by it that he might no more be exposed to its Efforts and no more hear the Cries to which he had bid a perfect Adieu Afterwards he desired him to acquaint his Father and his nearest Relations That he had so perfectly resigned himself into the Hands of God that the most outragious Punishment and the most cruel Death would not disturb him Entertaining his Judge after this manner he arrived at Nimes and it was Night the Judge not being willing he should be seen by any one he was forthwith put into a Dungeon where he passed the Night The Day after they put him in the Prison bound with strong Chains guarded and watch'd and visited by none but the Monks who were not wanting to visit him often and to press him in all their Visits to change his Religion But they always found him constant and so well resolved to suffer all things for the glory of God and for his Truth which he had preached and defended that being ravish'd with the Constancy of his Spirit the Tranquillity of his Mind and the Serenity of his Countenance wherewith he spake to them they were forced to say when they returned from him That they could not in the least prevail upon him what fair Promises soever they made him At last having brought him out of Nimes by Night he was carried to Beaucaire and put in the Town-House always guarded and watched loaden with Chains and hindred from seeing any Person whatsoever of all those that bore a part with him in his Sufferings There was a Concourse of Monks to see him and speak with him many did see and speak with him but what Efforts soever they used to disorder his Spirit and change his Mind he always gave them so good a Reason of his Faith and they always found in him so much of Resolution to suffer all things for it that leaving him they could only say this That this young Man was so strongly resolved to suffer all things for his Religion that Death was better to him than Life Monsieur the Intendant comes to make his last Attempts upon him he spoke to him alone hoping that way to gain somewhat upon him but he found the same Spirit in him as others had done for the Spirit of God never forsook him He exhorted him he prayed him he pressed him to change his Religion to that end he made use of all that the Horror of Death and the Pleasure of Life and all the Advantages of the World contain in them most taking with the Mind of Man but all this made no Impression on him Sometimes he said My Lord I love not the World nor the Things of the World I look on all the Advantages you speak to me of as Dung I tread all these under my Feet At other times he answered him My Life is not dear to me provided I may but gain Christ What Death soever I endure for him it will be very glorious to me Too happy I if I die for him and for that Cause for which he died After he had spoken like St. Paul he spoke like Polycarp the famous Bishop of Smyrna when the Proconsul asked him the same thing in Prison Exhort me not said he to leave the Master that I serve he is so good a Master that he never did me any thing but Good since I have been in his Service Should I quit him I abhor the thing solicite me no more to abandon him what Death soever I must suffer for him I will never for sake him Monsieur the Intendant seeing it was impossible for him to gain any thing upon him brought him to a little Stool where being set down he applied himself to him in these Words being touched with the Discourse he had had with him Monsieur Rey There is yet time left you to save your self Yes my Lord said he to him and this is that very time which I will employ about my Salvation Monsieur the Intendant having reassum'd his Discourse to say to him Monsieur Rey you must change and you shall have your Life He replied to him Yes my Lord I must change but 't is to go from this miserable Earth to the Kingdom of Heaven